Candle lamp



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c. w. DAVIS CANDLE LAMP Filed April 25. 1925 2 Shoots-Sheet l Qu l) V gal m INVENTOR.

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Dec. 20, 1927.

C. W. DAVIS CANDLE LAMP Filed April 25. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR.

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Patented Dec. 20, 1927.

UNITED STATESPA'TENT OFFICE.

CORTLAND w. DAVIS, oroAK' BARK, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR To THE MANTLE m' COMPANY OF AMERICA, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A GORPORATION'OF ILLINOIS CANDLE LAMP.

Application filed. Apri125, 1925. Serial No. 25,808.

The invention relates to candle lamps in which the oil receptacle simulates a candle. The invention has for its object the production of a unique and useful illuminating device which, while it may be cheaply manufactured, is attractive in appearance and includes parts which bled by the user, but which satisfactorily fulfill all conditions of practical use.

The invention will be best understood if reference be had to the ac coi'npanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which -Figure 1 is a view of the candle lamp shown in elevation, parts being broken away to show features ofinternal construction;

Figure 1 is an enlarged sectional view of the joint uniting parts of the lamp;

Figure 2'is a plan view showing the motor for actuating the shade of the lamp; 1

Figure 3 is a detailed view showing a part on which the motor is mounted;

Figure 1 reveals the wick-raising mechanism of the lamp;

Figure 5 shows a modification in which a shade is supported on the chimney of the lamp; and

Figure 6 reveals a modification in which a receptacle for liquids is substituted for the motor and the shade shown in Figure 1.

Referring to Figures 1,2, 3 and 4;, 1 is the candle holder which includes a base 2, a base plug 6 and a candle-holder tube 11.

The base 2 has an upstanding peripheral flange 3, and an inwardly-projecting flange 4i disposed above the plane of the bottom 5 of. said base 2.

' The base plug. 6 has a central. socket 7, the margin of said plug being reversely bent to produce outer and inner grooves, 8, 9, for reception of the flange l of the base 2, and the flange 10 of the candle-holder tube 11, respectively, the parts of the joint thus formed being closely pressed together to firmly unite said plug 6, said candle-holder tube 11 and said base .2.

The candle holder 1 is provided with a funnel 12 having a circular flange 13 extending into and fitting the upper end of said oandle'holder tube 11, and said funnel has an interior annular flange 14 of the same size as the socket 7, within which a hollow candle i5 loosely fits to leave a space 16 may not only be asse'm through which oil may flowinto the channel between said candle-holder tube 11 and the body of said candle. The lower end of the candle, 15 may be notched, as at 16, to fa- I cilitate flow of oil into the cavity within it, and this cavity may contain material 17 for absorbing oil introduced into the funnel 12. The candle 15 and the candle-holder tube 11 are slightly spaced from each other, and the channel between them hascapacity for only asmall amount of oil, the candle 15, ,i'tself constituting substantially the only reservoir for oil, so that should the lamp .be upset there will be little, if any, oil to run out.

Within the candle is awick' 18 extending downward into the absorbent material 17, said w ck being of such length as to admit of the raising ofits upper end without disturbing its lower end. A wick raiser 19 resting in bearings 19*, and having. a tooth wheel 20" which operates through a slot 21 in a wick tube 22, actuates the wick.

jThe wicktube 22 is provided with outer beadsi2 l, 23, which, respectively, engage the internal flange 25 and an annulus 26, the flange being a feature of'archirnney support 27 and the annulus extending from said chimney support 27 t0 said wick tube 22. Chimney support 27 telescopes over the upper end of the candle 15, andis provided with an external and preferably-integral gallery 28 in which the lower endof the chimney 29 rests upon lugs 34, struck from the baseof the gallery 28, so thatair may enter said chimney below its lower edge. The aforesaid bearings 19 are, displaced portions of the chimney support.

The upper end of the chimney 29 may taper, and is provided with an external bead 80 for retaining a spring clasp 31 having an extension 32 which terminates in a horizoiu tal and flattened arm 33. This arm 33 extends through and supports a cup-bearing 35 having open vertical slots 36 in its wall 87 for receiving said arm. 38 is the concave cup of said bearing, and within this cup is centered the pointed pivot 39 of a motor 40 which is actuated by currents of air and products of combustion flowing upward through the chimney 29.

The motor 40 has a hub 41, a rim 42 and blades 43, said blades being inclined extensions of arms 44 which are radially disposed between said hub ll and said rim 42. The rim is provided with three, or more than three, equally-spaced tongues 42* constituting anchorages :tor a shade'aifi whose walls they penetrate.

The motor and the shade are thus connected, and are compelled to rotate in unison'.

The hub 41, being conical in form, deflects disposed slightly off center to thereby avoid tilting of the snade.

In Figure 5, the shade 45 is shown attached to the ring 49 which rests on the chimney 29; Arms 50, diverging upward from said mega-9, are connected to a shadesupportingring'bl, said arms 50 being prolonged. at 52 so as to be extended through the body of the shade when the blank from which the shade'is made is bent to conical form.

In Figure (3 is shown a receptacle 4.1T, ha iuga cavity .8, siuaported on the bearing 35 which has already been described and is shown in Figure 1 this receptacle being a holder for water or volatile medieaments.

It will be observed that the motor and the shade, shown in Figure 1, are interchange able with the receptacle shown in Figure 6, and that by removing from the chimney the support shown in Figures 1 and 6 the shade revealed in Figure 5 may be directly supported on the chimney of the lamp.

It will also be noted that, as shown in Figure 5, the flame of the lamp and the two ends ot the arms 50 are in alignment, whereby said arms and the rings 49 and 51 throw a single minimum-sized shadow on the shade. This single shadow may be obscured by a band of ornamentation extending around the top of the shade, so that the shade as viewed by an observer Willbe shadowless.

Having thus' described my invention; What I claim is: y p

1. A lamp including, a reservoir simulating candle and containing absorbent material constituting a reservoir for substantially an entire charge of liquid fuel, a burner and its wick mounted on said reservoir, and an-opentop cylindrical tube surrounding, slightly spaced from and communicating with the lower end'of said reservoir for supplying oil to said absorbent material.

2. A lamp including an annular base having a raised central portion terminating in an inwardly-extending flange, a candleholder tube having an outwardly-extending flange at its lower end, and a base plug having a reversely-bent margin forming outer and inner grooves into which respectively extend the inwardly-extending flange of the base and the outwardly-extending flange of the candle-holder tube.

3. A lamp including a base plug having a central cavity, a tube simulating a candle resting in said cavity and a candle-holder tube sustained by said base plug, surrounding said tube and provided at. itsupper end with a funnel. and an inwardlyextending flange tor laterally sustaining said tube.

t. A lamp including a reservoir, a wick tube having spaced external beads at its .upper end, a chimney support telescoped on said reservoir and having a flange engaging one of said beads, and an annulus engaging the chimney supportand the other of said beads.

A lamp including a base having cencentric seats, a reservoir for substantially an entire charge of liquid fuel supported by one of said seats, and an open-toptube sur rounding and communicating with said reservoir and supported by the other of said seats.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

CORTLAND w. DAVIS. 

